Six baby goats were discovered missing from a northwest Salt Lake City ranch on Monday morning and their owners are worried about their well-being.

The kids were taken overnight from Cross E Ranch, a 200-acre working cattle ranch at 3500 N. 2000 West. In addition to farming, the ranch offers interactive experiences to connect people with agriculture and holds public events, including festivals.

The goats are all 3- or 4-weeks-old and were still being bottle fed with their mothers’ milk, according to Heather Limon, who runs the family ranch with her brother, Dalon Hinckley.

“If they don’t feed them correctly, they’ll just keep crying and crying,” Limon said.

The baby goats — two males and four females named Reggie, Archie, Aspen, Mila, Fawn and Josie — shared a pen with a baby pig named Oli. On Monday morning, Oli was in the pen and the door was shut, but the kids were nowhere to be seen, despite a search of the area.

Oli had been sharing living quarters with the goats because he was lonely, Limon said, adding that “now he’s lonely again.”

She said there were other signs that thieves are responsible for the disappearance of the goats, including a four-wheeler that belongs to the ranch sitting abandoned in the middle of the road.

Cross E’s security cameras did not catch the theft of the goats, which are worth about $1,400, according to the ranch’s Facebook postings. Limon said the kids were going to be part of the ranch’s yearly Baby Animal Festival, which begins April 4.

“The goats are always the favorite,” she said.

Anyone with information about the goats is asked to call the ranch at 801-203-0148. A reward is being offered.

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